WORLD DRAKA FIGHT COUNCIL (WDFC)INTERNATIONAL RULES of competitions among amateurs on Draka Sports Fight ( in edition of 2004)

SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS
1. General provisions

The present rules are developed in view of the international experience of realization of amateur competitions by various kinds of contact single combats.

Are directed on creation of equal conditions for duels of representatives of various styles and schools of martial arts and contact single combats.

The given rules are the intellectual property of the Russian professional sports federation DRAKA and the World Draka Sports Fight Council.

2. A place of realization of duels

Amateur duels Draka Sports Fight will be carried out(spent) on a standard boxing ring with a covering for throws .

3. Participants of competitions, equipment

To participation in amateur competitions on Draka Sports Fight are supposed technically and physically prepared sportsmen, as from Draka Sports Fight, and other contact kinds of single combats: Kickboxing, Thaiboxing, San Da, Daido Juku Karate.

Each participant of competitions is obliged to have:

-the medical admission;

-the insurance from accidents for the period of competitions;

-helmet on a head, protection of a teeth, chest protector, a bandage for protection of a groin, soft overlays on a shin and rise stops (ft), sports cowards, a vest - sleeveless jacket, boxing gloves, bandage on hands, for youth group in addition protection for knees , for adults group protection for elbows .

For adult sportsmen the protective protector on a chest can be cancelled under the discretion of organizers of competitions.

4. Age and weight categories

Competitions on Draka Sports Fight among amateurs will be carried out(spent) in the following age and weight categories:

The age category of the sportsman is defined(determined) in regulations about each concrete competition on one year of birth of the participant.

5. The formula of fight and the rules of competitions

Duels at amateur competitions on Draka Sports Fight will be carried out(spent) without interruption in view of pure(clean) time:

For cadets - preliminary duels two minutes, final three minutes;

For juniors - preliminary duels three minutes, final four minutes;

For youth and adults - preliminary duels three minutes, final five minutes;

In the first day of competitions all preliminary duels, in the second day consolatory duels for the third places (2 third places) and final duels will be carried out(spent).

12. The resolved(allowed) places of attack

In amateur duels on Draka Sports Fight by the resolved(allowed) places of attack are determined: a head, the case of a body and legs of the contender.

13. The forbidden actions

In amateur duels on Draka Sports Fight are forbidden:

-impacts in a nape, a throat, a neck, a backbone, a groin, against joints;

-to turn a back to the opponent, with the purpose to be protected, substitute under impact a nape, a back;

-deliberate impacts on the opponent, turned a back, fallen or touched a floor the third point;

-any impacts with capture of a head, a neck or a hand of the opponent (except for adults);

-any impacts at a prone position;

-any actions after a command "stop", a gong or singing of the head judge;

-captures in the rack more than five seconds, at a prone position more than fifteen seconds;

-impacts by a head, any part of a hand, which have been not closed by a glove;

-to bite, throw the contender on a head;

-special to fall on the contender in the weight or to press down a shoulder, an elbow;

-to press on the lying contender;

-any other actions promoting display of disrespect for the contender or drawing to it(him) of unjustified traumas;

-is conscious to injure the opponent during realization of painful and suffocating receptions;

14. The resolved(allowed) receptions of attack and counterattack

In amateur duels on Draka Sports Fight the following ways of attack and counterattack are resolved(allowed):

For cadets:

-boxing technic of hands in full;

-circular punch in a head from a turn;

-punch with capture of leg of contender attacking;

-any kicks to a head, a body and all length of legs outside and from within contender;

-cuttings, throws from technic judo and sambo-wrestling in the rack, captures no more than five seconds;

For juniors in addition:

-painful receptions to hands and legs of contender from judo and sambo-wrestling technic in position on floor within fifteen seconds;

For youth in addition:

-receptions for suffocating a contender in position on a floor within fifteen seconds;

-knees strikes in the body without captures of a head and a neck of the contender;

For adults in addition:

-elbow and knee strikes in a head and the case of a body, in captures no more than five seconds;

15. An estimation of technical actions One point

-punch by a hand to a head or the body;

-kick a head or the leg;

-low throw with falling who appear from above, within two seconds from the moment of falling;

-knee strike in a head or the body;

-an elbow strike in a head or the body;

-when to the contender the official remark is declared.

Two point

-the kick in the body;

-the low a throw when who throws remains on legs;

-the high effective throw with falling on the contender;

-to the contender is declared the official warning.

Three point

-the one punch or kick if after them contender will fall;

-the high effective throw when who throws remains on legs.

Urgent victory in fight

-knockout, technical knockout;

-the case when one of sportsmen has lost ability to be protected, under the discretion of the referee;

-to the contender two times the account up to eight after impact in a head is open;

-the case of removal of the contender of the trainer or the doctor.

16. Punishments for infringement of rules

The oral remark

-attempt of realization of anyone forbidden, the present rules, actions;

-foul blow or action without consequences for the opponent, the account is not open.

-unintentional infringement of rules after which the account up to eight is open

The official remark

-the foul blow or action without consequences for the opponent for which during fight the oral remark was already declared;

-the foul blow or the action which has entailed opening of the account up to eight.

The official warning

-repeated foul blow or the action which has entailed opening of the account up to eight, for which during fight the official remark was already declared;

-other infringements, depending on weight of consequences, under the discretion of the referee.

Disqualification

-deliberate foul blow or the action which has entailed opening of the account up to ten, after which opponent, by definition of the doctor, is not capable to continue fight;

-other infringements of the present rules, under the discretion of the referee.

20. Definition of the winner

-in amateur duels Draka Sports Fight by the winner in fight is considered who have more points, according to notes of side judges;

-in a case of equality points wins a sportsman if to his opponent during fight the official remark or the warning was declared, in case of absence of the remark and warning or their equality the duel will be continues in addition one minute.

note: The technical action begun simultaneously with a command "stop" and completed after a command "stop" is given points.